What would happen when you have two of the toughest female video game characters go one on one? Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise going up against Sonya Blade from the Mortal Kombat franchise is fantasy warfare. On one hand, you have the no nonsense United States Special Forces officer who doesn’t need help from anyone. Then you have a English archaeologist who is highly intelligent and can hold her own in a fight.
So who would win in a fight in the jungle?
Before we talk about the fight, let’s learn about the two female warriors.
Sonya Blade is one of the main heroes of the Mortal Kombat series. She hails from Austin, Texas, and is a second-generation United States Special Forces officer.
Sonya has a long-standing feud with a thug known as Kano, who stands for everything Sonya despises.
In the original Mortal Kombat, Sonya and her team were pursuing Kano, the leader of the Black Dragon international crime organization. After he jumped aboard an old junk in order to escape capture, Sonya and her comrades followed him to a remote island where Shang Tsung‘s Mortal Kombat tournament was underway.
Tsung’s personal guard ambushed Sonya’s team. In order to save her team, Sonya had to compete in the tournament. Shang Tsung, however had her unit killed. After Shang Tsung was defeated by Liu Kang in the final battle, Sonya teamed up with Johnny Cage and Kano to fight off Goro on the bridge high above the pit.
During the battle, the island started to crumble and she and Kano were taken prisoner to Outworld by Shang Tsung to appease the Outworld emperor, Shao Kahn. Sonya was able to send a signal to Jax from Outworld and, during the events of Mortal Kombat II, he traveled there to find her.
Jax made contact with the other Earthrealm warriors and together they learned of Kahn’s scheme to invade Earth.
She was later freed by Jax who arrested Kano. As soon as they had passed through the portal to Earth, Kano escaped and fled back to Outworld.
Lara Croft is depicted as an athletic with brown eyes and reddish-brown hair, frequently kept in a plait or ponytail. The character’s classic costume is a turquoise tank top, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, and tall white socks.
Accessories include fingerless gloves, a backpack, a utility belt with holsters on either side, and two pistols. The video game sequels introduced new outfits designed for different environments, such as underwater and cold weather.
In the later games, Croft wears a crop top, camouflage pants and black or light brown shirts. When exploring, she often carries two pistols, but has used other weaponry throughout the series. She is fluent in several languages.
Lara’s backstory has changed dramatically over the course of the series. During the first era, game manuals describe the character as the Wimbledon, London-born daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft (Lord Richard Croft in Legend and its sequels). She was raised as an aristocrat and betrothed to the fictitious Earl of Farringdon.
Lara attended the Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun and a Swiss finishing school. At the age of twenty-one, she survived a plane crash, which left her stranded in the Himalayas for two weeks; the experience spurred her to shun her former life and seek other adventures around the world.
Croft published books and other written works based on her exploits as a mercenary, big-game hunter, and master thief.
Let’s start the fight!